I.
noun
1 ( informal ) person with a very strong interest in sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ computer , fitness , health , speed
▪
For the real speed ~, there is a fuel-injection version of the car.
▪ control
▪
Her dad is a total control ~.
▪ neat ( AmE )
▪
I'm such a neat ~ that I clean up after other people.
PHRASES
▪ a bit of a ~
2 strange/unusual event
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
This was no more than a ~ of history.
PHRASES
▪ a ~ of nature
3 sb who is considered to be strange
ADJECTIVE
▪ total
▪ sick ( esp. AmE )
▪
What kind of sick ~ is this guy?
VERB + FREAK
▪ feel like
▪ regard sb as , see sb as
▪
Other students regarded him as a ~.
PHRASES
▪ a bit of a ~
▪
I felt like a bit of a ~ in my strange clothes.
II.
adj.
Freak is used with these nouns: ↑ accident , ↑ condition , ↑ gust , ↑ occurrence , ↑ show , ↑ storm